Your going to find out that these are virtually worthless. I was lucky to get $100 for a collection like that 15 years ago. Stamp collecting is on a serious decline

I was always into numismatics, never into stamps. If I could go back, it would be muscle cars. So cheap back in the day.

Back in the day you would hear about some rare stamps fetching enormous prices. Have those prices declined too and lost their luster?

I was an "art preparer" at a contemporary art museum at one time in my life, and we set up a show about art that pushed the limits as far as breaking laws. One artists "art" was to create a sheet of stamps, hand drawn to perfection complete with perforations. As I recall, the content of the stamp was a social commentary. Then he'd rip out one stamp from the flat and put it through the mail addressed to himself. What hung on the wall was the flat of stamps with the envelope and the cancelled stamp. I'm sure his stamps fetch a pretty penny.

I still collect stamps, and have a copy of every stamp Australia has issued since its first as a Commonwealth in 1913

I didn’t see any Australian stamps in the album; are there any there? I could give you a rough guide to their value straight away

As someone has already suggested, stamp collecting isn’t what it used to be. But the truly rare stamps still sell for small fortunes, and you never know, you might have jagged one

But showing your kids the album and talking history is priceless...